Patricia Prechter has been named provost at Our Lady of Holy Cross College in Algiers. Prechter had been interim provost since August. She continues to serve as chairman of the Department of Nursing and Allied Health and as a professor of nursing.

Patricia Prechter has been named provost at Our Lady of Holy Cross College.

Prechter is a registered nurse who has experience primarily with children, and more than 35 years in nursing education. She is one of four nursing faculty who joined the team at Our Lady of Holy Cross in 1982 to write the nursing curriculum.

Prechter was commissioned as an Army Nurse Corp officer in the Louisiana Army National Guard in 1978. She retired from the Guard in January 2008 as a colonel, state chief nurse and deputy commander of Louisiana’s Medical Command. She is a veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm and is the first female colonel in the Louisiana Army National Guard, retiring as the highest-ranking female.